Botanophilia in Eighteenth-Century France The Spirit of the Enlighte
The book describes the innovations that enabled botany, in the Eighteenth century, to emerge as an independent science, independent from medicine and herbalism. This encompassed the development of a reliable system for plant classification and the inventi
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BOTANOPHILIA IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE by ROGER L. WILLIAMS
Founding Directors: P. Dibont (Paris) and R.H. Popkin (Washington University, St. Louis & UCLA) Director: Sarah Hutton (The University of Middlesex, United Kingdom) Associate-Directors: J.E. Force (Lexington); J.c. Laursen (Riverside) Editorial Board: J.F. Battail (Paris); F. Duchesneau (Montreal); A. Gabbey (New York); T. Gregory (Rome); J.D. North (Oxford); M.J. Petry (Rotterdam); J. Popkin (Lexington); G.A.J. Rogers (Keele); Th. Verbeek (Utrecht) Advisory Editorial Board: J. Aubin (Paris); B. Copenhaver (Los Angeles); A. Crombie (Oxford); H. Gadamer (Heidelberg); H. Gouhier (Paris); K. Hanada (Hokkaido University); W. Kirsop (MeIbourne); J. Malarczyk (Lublin); J. Orcibal (Paris); W. Röd (München); G. Rousseau (Los Angeles); J.P. Schobinger (Zürich); J. Tans (Groningen)
ROGER L. WILLIAMS University ojWyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, U.SA
BOTANOPHILIA IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE The Spirit of the Enlightenment
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.V.
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ISBN 978-90-481-5678-8 ISBN 978-94-015-9849-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-9849-1
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CONT1ENTS Prologue ................................................................................................ 1 Sebastien Valliant and the Sexuality of Plants ....................................... 9 Linnaeus, Prince of Botanists .............................................................. 19 Bernard de Jussieu and the Petit Trianon .......................................... 31 The Buffon Phenomenon .................................................................. 45 From Jussieu to Candolle .................................................................... 57 Plants and Medical Practices .............................................................. 71 The Amiable Science and Sensibility ................................................. 87 Public Botanophilia: Floras ............................................................. 102 Public Botanophilia: Learned Societies and Eminent Botanophiles ............................................................... 121 Painting and Gardening: The Blending of Science and Art .............. 141 The Botanophiles Confront Deforestation ...................................... 162 Epilogue.......... .................... ............ ................................ ............. ... 174 Finale ...................
